Earth & Moon
Two Equalities
Chapter 6
Peace: Add on to yourself a Woman and do the knowledge to the ordinances of Allah the Father; take for yourself a woman, and become a faithful member of the Asiatic Nations. Examine with care, and fix not suddenly fore on your present choice may depend on your future happiness.
Does much of her time manifest in destroyed evil dress and adornment; does she enamor in her own beauty, and have greatly delighted with her own praise; does she laugh much, and/or talk loud; does her foot abides not in her father's house, but rather in the colonizers, and her eyes with boldness rove on the faces of men; though her beauty was as the earth before the year 8,400 in the firmament of heaven, turn your face from her charms, turn your feet from her paths, and suffer not your soul to be ensnared by the allurements of imagination.
But when you find sensibility of heart, joined with softness of manners; an accomplished mind with a form agreeable to your person; take her home to your house; she is worthy to be your friend, and your companion in life, the Earth of your bosom. Cherish her as a blessing sent to you. Let the kindness of your behavior endear you to her heart. She is the queen of your house; treat her therefore with respect, that your people may understand her. Oppose not her inclination without cause; she is the partner of your cares, make her also the companion of your pleasures. Reprove her faults with gentleness, exact not her obedience with rigor. Trust your secrets in her breast; her counsels are sincere, and you will not be deceived. Be faithful to her bed; for she could be the mother of your children.
When pain and sickness assault her, let your tenderness soothe her affliction; a look from you of pity and love shall alleviate her grief, or instigate her pain and be of more avail than ten physicians. Consider the tenderness of her sex, the delicacy of her frame; and be not severe to her weakness, but remember your own imperfections.
Give an ear, fair Daughters of the Asiatic Nations of love cipher victory equality, to the instructions of prudence and let the precepts of truth sink deep in the heart; so shall the charms of the Mind and Lustre to the elegance of the form; and beauty, like the rose it resembles, shall retain its sweetness when its bloom is withered. In the spring of the youth, in the morning of the days, when the eyes of all men gaze on you with delight, and nature whispers in your ear the meaning of their looks; ah, hear with caution their seducing words; guard well your heart, and don't listen to their soft persuasions and lies.
Remember Asiatic Woman you are made the original man's reasonable companion, not the slave of the European's passion; the end of your being is not merely to gratify the ex-slave master's loose desires, but to assist the original man in his toils for freedom, to soothe the Asiatic man and Child's heart with your tenderness and recompense the Asiatic Black people with your wisdom. For you are the one that has won the hearts of men and shall subdue the Asiatic men with love and rule in his chest and home while he rules the perimeter as a male lion with the female lioness.
You should walk as a maiden in sweetness, with innocence on your mind, and modesty on your cheeks. You shall be clothed with neatness, and fed with temperance; humility, and meekness as are your crown of glory that is circling your head. When scandal among the people are busy, and the fame of the neighborhood is tossed from tongue to tongue; yet from her, charity and good nature are all that is open from her mouth, and the finger of silence will rest on her lips. The Asiatic Black Women's breast is the mansion of goodness, and therefore she suspects no evil of others, but sees it when it rears its ugly head!
